Littératures caribéennes : écrire le présent dans les marges de la contre-histoire

Abstract

For many years now, the return of colonial memory has become a crucial issue in France. Two Caribbean novels simultaneously published in 2007 by Jean-Claude Fignolé, from Haiti, and by Patrick Chamoiseau, from Martinique, re-write a form of counter-history related to the present or to literary memory. But such scholarly writings have to be connected with the reappearance of popular genres such as the Haitian lodyans, a response to the post-dictatorial emergency.

Keywords

• caribbean novel
• lodyans
• memory
• hybridity
• intertextuality